Comments on: Mary Meeker's Entire Bummer PowerPoint on Her Internet Outlook http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081106/mary-meekers-entire-bummer-powerpoint-on-her-internet-outlook/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: And the Meeker Shall Inherit the Virtual Earth (In Other Words, Mary’s Annual Internet Trends Preso) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081106/mary-meekers-entire-bummer-powerpoint-on-her-internet-outlook/#comment-54833 And the Meeker Shall Inherit the Virtual Earth (In Other Words, Mary’s Annual Internet Trends Preso) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:56:32 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=6163#comment-54833 [...] has been paying mind to Morgan Stanley’s Internet analyst Mary Meeker’s prognostications for longer that either of us care to [...] [...] has been paying mind to Morgan Stanley’s Internet analyst Mary Meeker’s prognostications for longer that either of us care to [...]

]]> By: Steve Hards http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081106/mary-meekers-entire-bummer-powerpoint-on-her-internet-outlook/#comment-5539 Steve Hards Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:26:13 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=6163#comment-5539 Hi Mac, that's an interesting thought, but in my view the whole notion of 'presentation' has become seriously warped by people throwing up slides with text so small that no one in the audience can read them - and if they are reading them, what's the point of having a presenter? May as well have a document. It's not the fault of PowerPoint as a program - well, not much anyway - when Microsoft chose to default slides after the title slide to bulleted lists they undermined the basis of PowerPoint as a user-friendly graphics program. Anyway, a light has dawned! I thought 'bummer' in the article title referred to the style of the presentation, but maybe it was supposed to refer to the content of the message? Hi Mac, that’s an interesting thought, but in my view the whole notion of ‘presentation’ has become seriously warped by people throwing up slides with text so small that no one in the audience can read them – and if they are reading them, what’s the point of having a presenter? May as well have a document.

It’s not the fault of PowerPoint as a program – well, not much anyway – when Microsoft chose to default slides after the title slide to bulleted lists they undermined the basis of PowerPoint as a user-friendly graphics program.

Anyway, a light has dawned! I thought ‘bummer’ in the article title referred to the style of the presentation, but maybe it was supposed to refer to the content of the message?

]]> By: Mac Beach http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081106/mary-meekers-entire-bummer-powerpoint-on-her-internet-outlook/#comment-5515 Mac Beach Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:13:58 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=6163#comment-5515 Steve: No... the problem with Powerpoint (as well as the imitators) is that the emphasis is too often on the tool and what it can or can't do rather then on the data itself. Making a "database" of Powerpoint slides sounds like an expensive and cumbersome way of re-inventing html and web pages. One reason that document might have been put into that format though rather than just left in it's original Word, Powerpoint, or whatever format it was in was to make it hard to borrow from it. I would have rather had a spreadsheet with the numbers in it as well as a downloadable PPT file, but then I could go around giving talks and pretending to be as smart as Mary Meeker. Steve: No… the problem with Powerpoint (as well as the imitators) is that the emphasis is too often on the tool and what it can or can’t do rather then on the data itself.

Making a “database” of Powerpoint slides sounds like an expensive and cumbersome way of re-inventing html and web pages.

One reason that document might have been put into that format though rather than just left in it’s original Word, Powerpoint, or whatever format it was in was to make it hard to borrow from it.

I would have rather had a spreadsheet with the numbers in it as well as a downloadable PPT file, but then I could go around giving talks and pretending to be as smart as Mary Meeker.

]]> By: Steve Hards http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081106/mary-meekers-entire-bummer-powerpoint-on-her-internet-outlook/#comment-5514 Steve Hards Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:15:47 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=6163#comment-5514 That's not a presentation, it's a document dumped into PowerPoint and it would have been better kept as a document. Watch the videos of PowerPoint used as a visual and interactive medium on www.aspirecommunications.com (not my site, unfortunately) and you'll see it used at the other end of the 'presentation spectrum'. That’s not a presentation, it’s a document dumped into PowerPoint and it would have been better kept as a document. Watch the videos of PowerPoint used as a visual and interactive medium on http://www.aspirecommunications.com (not my site, unfortunately) and you’ll see it used at the other end of the ‘presentation spectrum’.

]]> By: Sam Harrison http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081106/mary-meekers-entire-bummer-powerpoint-on-her-internet-outlook/#comment-5512 Sam Harrison Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:51:41 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=6163#comment-5512 i didn't read this as 'bummer' her comparisons are to 2000 in some slides, that's when cpm ads were high and easy vc money bought them good job mary i didn’t read this as ‘bummer’

her comparisons are to 2000 in some slides, that’s when cpm ads were high and easy vc money bought them

good job mary

]]> By: Sam Harrison http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081106/mary-meekers-entire-bummer-powerpoint-on-her-internet-outlook/#comment-5511 Sam Harrison Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:49:44 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=6163#comment-5511 good overview of how things happened BEFORE. but history is a rear-view mirror, not a front windshield view good overview of how things happened BEFORE.

but history is a rear-view mirror, not a front windshield view

]]> By: Mac Beach http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081106/mary-meekers-entire-bummer-powerpoint-on-her-internet-outlook/#comment-5510 Mac Beach Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:07:57 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=6163#comment-5510 WOW. Lot of information there. WOW.

Lot of information there.

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